Country United Kingdom Series Pageant books series Publication date 1953 Originally published 1953 Page count 160 Illustrator Alan Blyth | Language English Publisher Phoenix House Media type Print (Hardback) Genre Historical Fiction | |
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The Rose in Splendour: a Story of the Wars of Lancaster and York is an historical novel by Leslie Barringer. It was first published by Phoenix House in 1953.
Plot
The novel is set in England over a period of eighteen months in the years 1460-61. It tells the tale of a young boy's early life, leaving his family’s farm first to an apprenticeship in York and later getting caught up in the bloody and decisive victory for the Yorkists at the Battle of Towton (29 March (Palm Sunday) 1461).
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